Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Part 1 Defensive Strategies
6. 1. Lacustrine Villages in South Benin as Refuges from the Slave Trade 1
7. 2. Slave-Raiding and Defensive Systems South of Lake Chad from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 15
8. 3. The Myth of Inevitability and Invincibility: Resistance to Slavers and the Slave Trade in Central Africa, 1850–1910 31
9. 4. The Impact of the Slave Trade on Cayor and Baol: Mutations in Habitat and Land Occupancy 50
10. 5. Defensive Strategies: Wasulu, Masina, and the Slave Trade 62
11. Part 2 Protective Strategies
12. 6. The Last Resort: Redeeming Family and Friends 81
13. 7. Anglo-E¤k Relations and Protection against Illegal Enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740–1807 101
14. Part 3 Offensive Strategies
15. 8. Igboland, Slavery, and the Drums of War and Heroism 121
16. 9. “A Devotion to the Idea of Liberty at Any Price”: Rebellion and Antislavery in the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 132
17. 10. Strategies of the Decentralized: Defending Communities from Slave Raiders in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450–1815 152
18. 11. The Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Role of the State 170
19. 12. Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 199
20. Epilogue: Memory as Resistance: Identity and the Contested History of Slavery in Southeastern Nigeria, an Oral History Project 219
21. Contributors 227
22. Index 231